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Hi everyone, I wasn’t sure whether I’m going to continue blogging here or start a kind of vlog on youtube. But for now, I was thinking I’ll continue blogging, because it’s pretty dark outside and it’s much better to then type than shoot something with bad lighting.

Can’t really give up yet, with 44 faithful followers, can I? What’s that – that’s like two baseball teams almost!!! BTW I heard baseball season started.

Today I was doing a 1 hour workout at home, because I have a goal planner on my fridge where I can fill out a line for every 1 hour session completed of some kind of workout – so I wanted to check that off.

Pick of the day was to do a bit of side-lunges with weights and such for shaping my glutes for summer. As I was stacking on a little bit of different weights onto my dumbbells I made sure I fitted in a bit of couch work too. No… not, like, relaxing on the couch;) But rather lying on my stomach with my legs out over the edge and doing kind of “frog lifts” with the soles of my feet touching and all, if you know what I mean!?

I also laid down as if I was relaxing on the couch and then did some triceps, and then stood up on all fours on the couch and worked on triceps with the weights to the side… anyway, so I haven’t been piling on the weights for these kinds of moves as I’ve gone back to listening to Tracy Anderson – going for a more lean & light dance body.

However I did add on some weight for the leg work and tried a kind of deadlift with my dumbbells in each hand (I still want a bubble-butt like, and you need some weight for that to progress well in my opinion), and toes up on a double-folded blanket. Saw somebody do that on Instagram in a gym but with a plank under his toes. Try it… it’s crazy! What for, I’m not hundred on. Felt effective on the backside of my thighs, maybe?

So, then I tried lunges to the sides…

– and honestly I feel so awkward every time I do that! I feel sort of out of balance and it just doesn’t sit right with me. Yeah, and then I had a protein shake and relaxed… binge-watching Season 3 of the old prison show on HBO called “Oz”, until I found this super relevant Feldenkrais lesson (below). It grounded me and taught me better balance already. Much recommend it! Also, I’m so for giggling away during a practice at little random jokes, ha, you know Yoga with Adrianneon youtube? – That kind of thing:)

At last – Now I can check off all; ‘SPA-time’ (which I had after breakfast, with some mud mask and foot massage), ‘Feldenkrais lesson’, ‘1-hour workout’, and ‘weekly blog’ on my goal sheet, hooray! Plus I had time to write for uni. Fantastic feeling.

Yay, so tomorrow I plan to check off the one I call “meal plan/make something nice” by making tacos!;) See, I don’t set my goals very high all the time;) Makes for more of a motivation to me. I usually drink lots of protein smoothies, so… not like that’s bad but it’s good to practice those culinary skills, too, I reckon:) Oh BTW any ‘fit recipes’ you got, please share ’em! I got American pancakes down pretty good. Thinking of doing some kind of egg whites in muffin forms with bits of healthy stuff in… broccoli perhaps… in the oven — for quick snacks during the day, ya know?! Actually, some skinless chicken would be neat in there too perhaps. My Italian dietitian in the past suggested some sardines on crackers… not the yummiest maybe;)

⭐️⭐️⭐️Current form.⭐️⭐️⭐️ Post 1 hour Pilates.

Hey so I figure I may as well post my progress on here to keep better track and motivate myself to keep improving, what do you think!?

Maybe I can inspire someone else in the making. We all need workout buddies! Currently my workout buddy is a flat-coated retriever but I only walk her every now and then so in between that I find other ways to motivate myself. Sometimes it’s even a show on HBO that’s very action-filled or so, that I just think: “Ah, I want to be an actor in action movies.” Or sometimes I use “Man, I was in the army last year around this time, where I could do all this training and 10 x more of it, without sleep so get on with it!” – I’m really glad I’m studying at university right now though, because here in Sweden at least I can ride my bike to university even in winter it seems (or spring as it would be now), and yet sleep in on most days as I want… and also eat really well as I’m able to be near to my apartment and also go home for lunch even in “shorter” 1 hour lunch-breaks… on the occasional longer day.

Sometimes I simply think of any scene with the Absolutely Fabulous girlies… “DARRRRRLING…” Don’t want to end up fat n’ alone, do we… I’m in a happy relationship. But one should never get lazy. Simple as that.

5×1 hour workouts this month and a few smaller ones in between…

In the 1 hour ones includes Pilates at home in front of YouTube training videos (max level-sometimes I add a bit of weight) outdoor biking (up/downhill), weight-training at home… just a few pounds for that lean figure, taking the steps to my apartment and kind of doing side lunges while I’m at it… also walking and running with a puppy, etc! 🙂 creative, nothing too sweaty! But with heartbeat and heavier breath at some point. I find that it has improved my posture and also energy in studying. I remember dance classes in New York, Manhattan, as well as Pilates classes on Saturdays in Brooklyn that I used to take. I love it.

Will keep this up and those abs will be more clear for summer I am sure, and *bubble butt* back on point ☺️

That’s it people, no gym, lots of protein shakes with unsweetened soy and either banana/strawberry and maybe a little bit of peanut butter as lunch or dinner (or both) and then whatever food basically but very little sugar… (quite a lot of fat… yoghurt coated cashew nuts and yoghurt coated pineapple bits are my favorites).

Applied for the police series casting anyway. I wrote a post about applying previously but I deleted it because it bored me. My hair style is quite like that *Detective Ani Bezzerides*, but longer and lighter, so… Otherwise I suppose I’ll wait until later with reading the Rolling Stones article about what went wrong with Season 2 of True Detective!? I’m watching it. It’s dark.

I got a book too, Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen. ‘A masterpiece’, according to New York Times. Anyone read it? I just wanted to read something good.

Heard some fireworks this evening. Can’t be fun for someone who’s a veteran with PTSD, I suppose? As with dogs. Unless they know how so well how different weapons sound that it wouldn’t sound like a small gun or anything. I biked through the woods along an empty road and thought about the forrest as looking kind of welcoming now that I’ve been out there somewhat more this year, then across a river in the dark – which reminded me of running intervalls in winter, up north (most of us looked close to throwing up during that). We’d thrown our ice cleats to rest at the beginning of this bridge, then we put them back on and jogged home in double columns.

Thinking about joining a gun club across the river and bike there. I’d get the workout from the biking back and forth, and I’d re-live some of the army thrills at the range. Maybe after New York I’m going to go and see them. The thing is that when I do, I want to really commit to it if so. So I’m going to think about it. Can one even bike while carrying here? And can you even store a gun (in Sweden) in a Student apartment? The laws are so strict… speaking of strict: tomorrow I have to code in HTML Strict… yessir. Goodnight.

Hey, it’s been a while. Didn’t forget you! I’m finishing off a UX-design course right now, learning some cool things and am to spruce up this site a bit – make it into my online portfolio, with the blog as well. I soon have to get back to creating more wireframes in Balsamiq. And I booked a much longed-for trip to New York in the new year! Much excited about that!

I was reading an article on stuff to do if you’re alone on the holidays (or at least on xmas day). It seems the train tickets are a mess around this time of the year… expensive, and 4-5 changes instead of 1 (train to bus changes that are normally just train), and I have a class in coding over the holidays as well that I need to finish another portfolio for before I fly out.

So, one of the first thing on the list of to-dos that one could do when alone was to volunteer, the article let me know. I thought, hey that’s a great idea – I’ve volunteered before, it’s badass and good for people so why not, I can do that. However, I don’t believe in the “lord”, you know, more like; hard work, motivational strategies, whatever-works-for-yous-all, and the law of attraction!? So, it doesn’t really make sense to me to be participating in a church ceremony and serve food… the “advertisement” said nothing about homeless people, immigrants, or veterans, which may have convinced me more? If you’re in Sweden and want to check for volunteer events yourselves, here is a page I found that posts a lot of volunteer work, incl. what I just mentioned: Volontärbyrån – you can search by city or anything like. I have volunteer worked at SPCA in Tel Aviv before, and I know for a fact that there is a kitty shelter on the upper east side in New York so definitely check that out. I believe ASPCA of NYC need their volunteers to come in pretty regularly as well (or perhaps just with dog walkers) but I’d encourage you to read up on it. In Tel Aviv, I helped bring in a malnourished kitty that my friend had found alone and lost on the street – brought it across town in a cardboard box with holes via bus. If you had access to a car there you could help in more “advanced” rescue missions as well, maybe that goes for NYC, too, I’m not sure?

Well, also I did watch Before The Flood and I’ve had more vegetarian food of late. But when I have time I shall make American Pancakes… I did buy some eggs and milk the other day. Most of my food have been organic of late as well. Dunno, environment has been increasingly on my mind. But it’s caused me to think more now that I’m aware. For example, I thought I’d buy tofu ice cream and I leaned into the “ice cream” ice box in the store to grab the one I’ve seen so many times when I was younger at kids’ parties where someone was lactose-intolerant… the TofuLine one like. Has an octagon shape, black color like UFC-inspired perhaps. Love the UFC, so it felt cool, right!? Well – PALM OIL. Dammit. What’s better now? Locally produced ice-cream, or who-knows-wherefrom-derived vegan/vegetarian brand incl. palm-oil?

To my point with this post however, I found something in my style in regards to volunteer work… only it wouldn’t do it for just the holidays, I’d have to commit for a longer time. But that may just be what I want to do for this next year… this ! (It’s a crime victim support service) You learn some stuff… call people, help ’em in court… I think it’s awesome. But there’s a lower limit to your monthly involvement. I think something like 6-8 hours, 3 cases (supports) like? Either way, I was in the military and studied some crime stuff and it struck me that there sure is a lack of bravery and lack of staff for these kinda professions. I mean bravery and knowledge about such as what you’re allowed to do when someone attacks you and tries to steal your laptop or something. Can you hit them back? For instance, I learned that if I saw someone do that to you (military or not) I could step in and help ya – with some force, too (matching the level of the criminal) – it’s called “Hjälparens rätt” in Sweden. *Helper’s rights* or something.

How many people knew that? Or what if someone starts a fight in a club or at a bar and goes ballistic, starting to punch on an innocent… it shouldn’t be so that people don’t dare to step in to stop it just because they don’t want to get involved in court later (perhaps they’d think they might be mixed up as being the perpetrator). That’s why I think crime victims should always have someone to talk to and teach them about their rights, and let them know how they may stand up for themselves – at least later on if they couldn’t do it earlier because either they didn’t know of their rights or they were simply outed by the criminal. A lot of people are needed for this I read. I’m considering it. Also because I think it would be a life-experience, and I like law – I noticed however that it takes many years of studying which is costly even in Sweden, and furthermore that it’s bound by country (since national laws differ from place to place)… if I had the money and was born in America I may have at least become a paralegal though. I saw a great award-winning short film last year that I found out about through the course I was taking in Digital Movie Making at the time. It was fantastic! You can read about it on IndieWire. The Phone Call.

Also here is a trailer for it:

Will you be a volunteer this holiday season? Or are you a regular volunteer at some place?

Hope you are well! I wanted to check in with you and share some news. I finished my book about learning and digital yesterday, it’s called 11:11. I will try to publish it here on the blog for you all to see very soon! But first off, let me say I’ve had this beautiful time of learning today.

I started off with some yoga at home, and then I went onto doing some pushups, working my back muscles with some weights, etc. and started listening to a complete Feldenkrais lesson on YouTube at the same time! Feldenkrais was a physicist! I really liked the introductory talk about him. Very motivational. Much worth it! 🙂

I just realized something massive when I followed this whole video and did the lesson! If the brain only wants to adjust to where it sees “possibility” in terms of movement as I both heard from the teacher and was able to feel for myself here, then maybe the thoughts work similarly? And perhaps that’s why the Law of Attraction (The Secret) and similar methods (The Silva Method) work; because you truly imagine possibility! And also while show jumping, you’re supposed to look at the next obstacle already while you’re flying over one… maybe that’s just a way to put our attention on the next thing so that our body moves with us and the horse can feel it and so it, too, turns easier as a result… rather than that we can “think ahead”. Wow. Because in horsemanship you practice a lot of small movements as well – working with the movement of the horse instead of against it or trying to be the one who decides over it.

I’m going to work on my script now. Shooting next week. But I felt I should share this experience. I was sitting down and looking over to my left shoulder… well, barely! I was barely looking past my left shoulder to begin. Whereas the end of this lesson I was able to look past the point of right behind me. The brain is magnificent! Really.

Also I tried this TheraPearl eye mask, putting it on for 20 minutes before I got to sleep. And so I’ll listen to The Silva Method (the long relaxation exercise) while I keep the mask on… kind of drift off to sleep for a bit, wake up by an alarm I’ve set for 20 min., take the mask off and just put it by my side on a table without leaving bed… and then drift fully into sleep! Next morning I have almost no dark circles under my eyes, not much puffiness… and I feel lovely!:) Tomorrow I’m getting a haircut and I’m going to have a wonderful weekend myself, I wish the same for you… and may all your wishes come true!